Domestic Geek

Well, I kept some food down today. WooHoo. I didn't go to the printer job again today. Sitting under the air conditioning really screwed me yesterday. My body hurt so bad this morning from the shivering. Ick. Man, Friday's paycheck is going to be pathetic. I slept all day, though, so that really helped. Not being able to keep any fluids in my system has me trying to develop a bladder infection. I've been drinking as much fluids as I could today to try and flush the old system out. I hope I'm successful. The last thing I want is to waste more money trying to fight a round of bladder/yeast infections.

I have yet another reason to have no respect for my boss at the pizza place. One of the employees that he has a thing for left some personal correspondence in the restroom after her shift yesterday. I only know it is hers because I accidentally knocked them down when I grabbed my work clothes and I recognized her handwriting. When he got to work, I saw him carrying her stuff out of the bathroom into the office, where he proceeded to read all of her stuff. Loser. He is so freaking insecure and nosy. I swear he must be a girl the way he acts. I was contemplating telling her that he took her stuff, but I don't want to get involved. That is definitely the most dysfuctional place I have ever worked (although the screenprinter is becoming a top runner). Is there such a thing as a healthy, functioning workplace? I'm beginning to wonder.

I lost 8 pounds in the two days I didn't eat. I'm sure most of that is fluids and will be replaced shortly, but it was good to see the scale lower than it has been. After seeing a picture of myself today that was taken at Laura's wedding a couple of weeks ago, I really realized that I need to do something about my weight. I've been so good at convincing myself that even though the scale says I weigh close to 300 pounds, I'm not really that fat. Even though I can't find clothes that fit at Sears or Penney's, I'm not really that fat. Well, yes, I really am that fat. I didn't recognize myself in that picture. I have the opposite problem that most people do: my self-image is way better than reality. I still have a picture of myself as I was in college. I was still fat, but I was under 200 pounds. I'm glad that Marcus got me a bike for my birthday rather than something computer related. It's going to get some good use. I didn't like what I saw today. That wasn't me.

Well, I'd better try to get some more sleep. I need to get back on my regular schedule, try to get some hours at the printer tomorrow and continue the job search.

Oh, this Supernatural show is going to be freaky. Good thing Marcus will be home in 45 minutes. I'm getting the heebie jeebies.

Ugh, I was wishing I didn't have to go to work yesterday because I'm starting to dread going there and *abracadabra* I'm sick as a dog.

I wasn't feeling particularly well when I left work after the half hour I spent there trying to get the company's mail back up. Mail was down as a direct result of the somebody I'm annoyed with not notifying me of the emails coming in about renewing the web hosting and the company's credit card on file being declined and the subsequent suspension of our hosting. I found the relevent files and changed the MX record, told the owner what I had done, left a note for the art director and went home. About a half hour after getting home I started getting feverish and decided to take a hot shower, I puked on my feet in the shower and then I crawled into bed for a few hours. Once I got up, the other owner (who could've fixed this on Friday if he wasn't off attending Buff Club lunches) had totally ignored what I had done to rectify the mail situation, had totally changed our name servers and our website was still not up. *sigh* I couldn't eat anything all day. I tried some mac and cheese and it ended up coming back up. I was running a huge fever and I contemplated calling in sick to pizza last night, but the fever broke at 2 am and I felt pretty good when I got up at 4. I didn't feel terribly bad when I got to the 2nd job, but after a half hour of sitting in the air conditioning (I keep turning temp up, art director turns it back down), I was freezing and feeling like crap. The fever crept back big time. I made it until 2:30 and I couldn't take it anymore and went home. I ate some chicken noodle soup when I got home and now my stomach is feeling unsettled again. Yay.

Oh, and speaking of crappy work stuff...the losers screwed my pay last week yet again. Labor Day was to be my first paid holiday and when I got my check I was missing those 8 hours. We only have like 13 empoyees left. How freaking hard can it be to get payroll right? Geez. They also missed my birthday. That hurt. For everybody's birthday they get a card and a cake and they totally skipped me over. If there was ever an omen that I don't belong there, that was it.

At least I'm getting to finally watch The Gilmore Girls season premiere. This season looks more promising that last year's. Now I'm going to check out this Supernatural show and try to get warm and not lose my soup. The guy who played Dean on Gilmore Girls, Jared Padalecki, is in this Supernatural show. His character's brother's name is Dean. I bet that's weird for the guy.

BTW, I really want one of the new iPod Nanos (preferably one of the 4GB black ones). I'm sure I'll have to make myself wait awhile, though, as I really need to get some other things to get the business going. Maybe by Christmas or maybe when the storage is bigger.

Oh, and today's Joy of Tech was about the demise of the iPod mini. Go check it out—totally cracked me up!

Well, even though I wasn't looking forward to it and didn't even really want to celebrate it, this year's birthday turned out ok. Last night we had dinner at Mike & Nina's house where she served Chicken Cordon Bleu (Nina is the Chicken Cordon Bleu Queen!) and a Coffe House Crunch™ cake from Cold Stone. The cake gave me a super sugar buzz. They gave me a cool Logitech MX1000 Laser Cordless Mouse that I wanted from my wishlist. I'm using it now. This thing is su-weet! Today Marcus took me to Bicycle Village to get me a bike. I picked out a Trek 820. It's yellow/black/white and kind of matches the ol' Baja. I really wanted the blue/silver/black one, but they didn't have one in my size. Oh, well...so be it. I just need something that I can get some excercise on and ride a little with Marcus. We just got home from dinner out with Dad. We went to Sam Taylor's BBQ (Marcus had never been there) and as ususal, the food was excellent! As soon as Marcus is done working on someone's computer, we'll retire to the couch to watch some Monk on DVD before I have to go to bed. All in all, not a bad way to spend my 39th birthday. So, though I have stories of woe I want to write about, I'll keep them until another day.